Nov 16, 2015 · While mapped here is the Dupont Circle station, every single station in Washington, D.C.'s Metro system is an example of Brutalist architecture. Despite commuters' many complaints on the...

Mar 25, 2021 · Washington’s most notorious Brutalist building, the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, has become a living lair, a symbol of surveillance and policing. Essentially two buildings stacked on top of...

Oct 9, 2024 · On Tap: Why is Brutalist architecture so important to the architectural landscape of DC? Deane Madsen: For one, there’s just so much of it. Look at any satellite image of Southwest DC and you’ll find enormous superblocks of government buildings rendered in concrete: the Department of Energy, the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Apr 4, 2024 · Through the 1970s and 80s, Brutalist architecture fell out of favor with the public. Brutalism emerged partly out of the need to cheaply construct massive new public housing developments, and now a public housing crisis raised tensions over long-standing issues like crime, poverty and maintenance.

Jun 11, 2024 · Capital Brutalism explores the history, current state, and future of seven polarizing buildings and the WMATA Metro system in Washington, D.C. The exhibition uses archival documents, drawings, construction photographs, architectural models, and contemporary photographs to provide context and shed light on the buildings’ stories.

May 18, 2023 · Like it or not, concrete, brutalist buildings have a starring role in D.C.'s architectural history. Here's why. If you ask Washingtonians about the city’s infamous brutalist architecture,...

Office buildings, Connecticut Ave. Typical brutalist cookie-cutter architecture prevalent in downtown Washington from the 1970s through the mid-1990s. Roughly half of these buildings have been retrofitted with more attractive, semi-modernist or faux-classical styling.

Apr 13, 2017 · Metro was just one part of a building boom that swept Washington in the 1960s and 1970s, leaving DC with a substantial legacy of Brutalist structures that celebrate the geometry and texture of raw concrete. This post highlights five buildings that combine the …

Co-organized with the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), Capital Brutalism is the largest-ever survey of Brutalist architecture in Washington, D.C. and will be on display at the Museum through Monday, February 17, 2025.

Aug 5, 2024 · Three of the leading Brutalist structures in Washington DC are the FBI Headquarters, L’Enfant Plaza (main image) and The Weaver Building, all of which are walkable from the National Mall.